, 1887-04-28

-Hi Dlt1L4N-S. IL " IL lLuS
require 1928 cords # wood to make
;Ey L-Z5H.u bushels o. charcoal .or
a y,a-'- operation Of a fifty ton fur
mace. u. these calculations are based
on the old process.
BY Dr. Pierce's system the aver
age j5 fifty bushels Of charcoal per
cord Ct wood, thus requiring but
$500 cords Of wood, and effecting
saving Of Il,I25 cords, or p per cent
Of al the wood.
i must here state that by this
syEtem four distinct products are OBJ
tanned from wood. The first of these
Is charcoal; the second is alcohol in
d crnie state: the third product con.
sIsts IL UucOudeusable gases used for
generating heat, either IN reducing
wood l. charcoal, in running boilers
OF furnaces, OF in smelling iron ores.
This last application Is still in the
course oi development. The fourth
product j. CON. osed OF tarry COM
pounds rreosOte and pyroligneous
ac.d- 1T present used Tor fuel, but
which opens out a large uudeveloped
field foI producing analine dyes, pre-
serving timber, roofing paper, etc.
i lTsd.ng the economy of the new
process still further, and taking these
.. 900 cords of wood, it may be
assured shat they will cost SI.5O per
cord on S5I,I IN all. The expenses
OF hauling, placing in kiins, etc, viii
amount 10 twenty cents per cord, or
5000. The expense Of reducing
kiiu5 to charcoal and running alcohol
department viii be about So per
day, or $3.50 d year. The sum total
Of these oUtlays is SG3,030.
Against this place the yield of al
cohoI, which, by DR.. Pierco's process
viii be three gallons per cord, or. on
the 3i,JUO cords, lO3,50O gallons,
which, at siXty-tiys cents IA very low
estimate), will be worth S67,275. 1t
Will be thus seen that the charcoal,
as left in the kiln ready for the fur
mace, IS not only paid for by one of
the by products, but that d margin Of
Si,245 Is left over for incidental ex
Peuses-"
Ihe immense timber resources of
Washington Territory are likely te
become very important factor III the
manufacture of charcoal iron. Not
only will this process utilize all the
waste products OF our sawmills, but
there are thousands Of acres of tim
Der which is useless for milling pur-
poses, which by the Pierce process
can De converted into charcoal and
other valuable products.
This process IS no mere experiment.
1t Is adopted and utilized on a vast
scale in the South, and the figures
above used are based on the actual
monthly results obtained at the
Standard Charcoal works at Good
rich, Tennessee. For information of
the readers of the ARGUS l give the
following list of furnaces, either in
operation OF In course of construction,
which are using the Pierce system.
l. Elk Rapids, Michigan have
been running five years; consumes
65,00O cords of wood yearly; average
make, sixty tons daily of charcoal pig
iron. Daily output, 12,QOO pounds
acetate of lime, 200 gallons alcohol.
2. Standard Charcoal Co., Good
rich, Tennessee Consumes 10000
cords year; average yield. fifty-one
bushels charcoal and three gallons
alcohol to each cord of wood.
3. Galera Furnace ana Charcoal
Co, = alera, Alabama; capital stock,
s35o, 600; average yield, fifty-four
bushels charcoal, three gallons alco.
hOl per cord.
i. Decatur Chemical Charcoal &
Furnace Co, Decatur. Ala. caDital
SiOO,UUO, consumes $4,000 cords an
nually IN two fifty ton furnaces will
average 25,000 pounds actate of lime
/ and 500 gallons of alcohol daily.
D. Nashville, Tenn, Iron, Steel &
Charcoal Co, capital 100000, two
furnaces, same output as Decatur.
=. Montgomery, Ala, furnace be-
ing constructed, capital S356,000, 40
900 cords wood yearly, with output
1900 pounds acetate OF limo. and 27O
gallons Of alcohol.
Mr.. Daniel writes: L think the
process would titsexactly for soma of
the big sawdust piles on the Sound
making it first into charcoal and then
! converting the charcoal meal into
boquettes, or brick shaped masses by
mixing it with the tar produced, and
handling the charcoal and its pro-
ducts III conYeyors as grain is handled
IN elevators. This makes the best of
fuel" Mr. Daniel writes that he will
be in Taeoma on the 81 of June and
will be in Port Townsend to attend
the pioneers meeting on tho 7th.
When he Is here he will fully ex-
plain this process to any one inter-
ested.